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- SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR MacZOO 2.1
-
- 1/7/92
-
- The interface to MacZOO is a command line interface -- sorry, but
- we wanted to modify a minimum amount of the code written by ZOO's
- creator, Rahul Dhesi. After double clicking on the MacZOO icon,
- type in the command line arguments as described in ZOO.MAN. For
- example, if on a UNIX or MS-DOS command line you would type "zoo
- a temp *.c" (which would add all files with names ending in ".c"
- to a ZOO archive called "temp.zoo"), you would enter "a temp *.c"
- in the MacZOO startup window.
-
- Also, MacZOO will not archive and compress anything but text files.
- Executable files on the Mac, for example, are not single files like
- they are on most other systems, and so ZOO would have to be
- extensively modified to handle them.
-
- Thus, MacZOO is intended as a program to handle archives of text
- files which will be transferred among various machines. Since ZOO
- runs on UNIX machines, OS/2 machines, NeXTs, Amigas, Ataris, and
- MS-DOS machines, Macs can now handle ZOO files created by these
- machines and vice versa. Even Apple II's and CP/M machines have
- unZOO programs.
-
- There are two things you should keep in mind when transferring text
- files among various machines: not all machines can handle long
- file names or file names with spaces in them, and different machines
- use different characters to signify the end of a line of text.
- For example, MS-DOS machines can handle only file names made up of
- eight characters, a period, and then three more characters (like
- "ihate_ms.dos"); and Macs terminate a line of text with a carriage
- return, while MS-DOS machines terminate a line of text with a
- carriage return/line feed pair. UNIX uses only a line feed. Thus,
- you may need a program or a word processor which can switch line
- termination around (there are such public domain utilities available
- on GEnie and other online services and bulletin boards).
-
- By "text file," by the way, we mean files saved as text only. The
- files saved by most word processors are not text files -- they
- contain special characters to indicated underlining, special fonts,
- etc. However, most word processors have an option for saving files
- as pure text (sometimes referred to as an "ASCII file").
-
- ZOO 2.1 was ported to the Mac by Jim Wolff and Brooke Anderson,
- who assume no responsibility for the results of using MacZOO --
- even if it causes your computer to explode, killing everyone within
- a several block radius.
-